“Matlab-ing me!”

For the longest time, I had been trying to get M — M of the hair-curler fame, M who's mug I like and with whom I compete for the... (ahem!) affection (?!) of a certain cutie — that M, to do a guest post for me, considering how entertaining she is and that we have rather insane conversations usually. So I did. And then she put it off, for the longest time, but surprised me last night by emailing me her post! So, without further delay, here's presenting, M, malai maarke! It also happens to be the very first guest post on this blog!
P.S: M, fantastic post! I hope you'll agree to doing more :D

You know, one of the many good things about having a friend in a completely different time zone from yours is that while you are suffering from lack of sleep, drinking coffee by the litres, burning the damn midnight oil and finishing off your assignment (that is taking AGES to finish) in the lab, she is in another part of the world, sitting behind her pretty office desk, probably getting bored at work, probably drinking (a lot?) of coffee and probably trying to get her work done by time too.

Now where’s the good in that you ask? The good thing, my dear readers, is that she is awake too! When I’m awake and fretting over my assignments, she’s there, just a ping away! Well she kinda has to stay awake unless she wants her boss to fire her ass...buuuuut i’m sure we don’t want that now do we? :P

So anyways, while its late-night-ish here in Perth (where I am), it’s afternoonish there in London (where my ‘matlab-ing’ friend is), and both of us are trying to keep each other awake, being a “friend in need is a friend indeed” et al. Also can I just add- God bless gtalk!!! May God also bless all the offices and the bosses who allow their employees to use gtalk at work! Actually, while we are at it, God bless that MAN in orange polka dot mini dress, with white knee-length stockings, long shiny blonde hair and ballerina shoes on who waltzed into the library and sat at the computer next to mine. Oh, God knew I was having a bad day and desperately needed a good laugh! I kid you not guys, this actually happened just a few days back. You won’t believe the kind of things that happen with me, but then that’s another post for another day.

Coming back to my story- so it was a typical weeknight when I was doing my work in the lab and chatting with Dewdrop; both of us talking about extremely serious, frown-worthy issues like how our lives totally suck, and how we are stuck in a rut day after day and how “great” a gift pms is, things like that..just when I began whining about my assignment. Now my fellow engineers reading this, you must be very familiar with a computer programming language called ‘MATLAB’? This is what happened when I made the mistake of NOT explaining it to The Dewdrop first about what it was.

Me- .......I know how to do ALL the questions for my assignment ..BUT.. there is this one small thing for which i dont know the command for.. and THAT is stopping me from doing ANYTHING AT ALL!

Dewdrop- Eh?? How important is that command to the assignment?

Me- I have to use the programme na..so I need to know the command for it.

Dewdrop- Oh. What software is it?

Me- Matlab. Bohot pakau cheez hai yaar.

Dewdrop- Ohooo. What programme are you using to write your assignment??

Me- Matlab.

Dewdrop- Arrey how are you writing this assignment???

Me (now thinking what’s wrong with her)- Meaning???

Dewdrop- Okay now you’re doing it on purpose. Shooo.

Me- Lol, arrey I don’t know what you mean!

Dewdrop- Shaddup.

(After a few seconds)

Me- Abeyy dhakkannnn

Dewdrop- Tu dhakkan!!! :P

Me- Abey the programme is called MATLAB. As in MAT-LAB!!!!!!!!!! I didn’t mean ‘matlab’ in hindi!!!!

Dewdrop- GOOD LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! M, you did that on purpose!!!!!

Me- HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You kept asking what programme I’m using...toh I kept answering your question! Oh my god, I can’t stop laughing!!!

Dewdrop- Abbe teri!!!! You’d have kept going ‘matlab matlab’ all night man.. and as if that’s not enough, you ask ‘meaning?’.........Matlabing me! Sheeeessh. :P

And this is how ladies and gentleman, two mad women, one in London and one in Perth, laughed continuously for a whole fifteen minutes!

That was probably one of the few times I had laughed the hardest! :D

By the way, later on I realised there were cameras all over the computer lab.
Imagine what a scene the lab assistant witnessed when he watched the tape the next morning- an Indian girl wearing an oversized jumper, therefore dressed rather shabbily, staring at her computer screen and laughing like an idiot. The things I do!

PS- Dewdrop, I laugh like crazy even today when I read that chat. It was the funniest thing ever! :D